“I’ve been an artist for so long that there is very little separation between my art and my life. I am my art now. My art informs my decisions, my perspectives about the world, and my relationships, oftentimes to their detriment. If my art has plateaued—if I have plateaued, if I never become professional—how do I move forward? Turning the page and telling myself that I had a good run doesn’t feel like a constructive or even healthy option.”

Dancing Monkey Laboratories is a performance collective lead by scientists Mike Czuba, Melissa Tuplin, Nathaniel Schmidt, Leon Schwesinger and Larry Lamont. We are interested in researching, exploring, discovering and deconstructing what (T)heatre can be by creating new works that speak to diverse audiences. Dancing Monkey believes in experimentation without alienation – creating theatrical experiences that offer universal content, challenging aesthetics, while building bridges into other artistic communities and towards new audiences. Founded in Montreal, Quebec, Dancing Monkey now also has a laboratory in Calgary, Alberta.

Creating new forms, such as the “Night Play”, Dancing Monkey Laboratories is pleased to be following in the footsteps and dreams of our Nocturlogical predecessors. If you have to ask if something exists, it already does, if it is all lies, it is also completely true – Nocturlogically speaking.

CONTACT:
dancingmonkeylab@gmail.com

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Nathaniel Schmidt’s Debut Album ‘SATELLITES’ Now Available on Itunes

Mike Czuba’s play ‘I AM I’ is available @ Original Works Publishing.

"The characters in Mike Czuba’s new tragi-comedy “I AM I” may state in frustration that they hate postmodernism, but the show owns its very appeal to this fragmented, and yet strangely cohesive genius of narrative." Lucian Tion, Amsterdam Fringe - 2013